I Beat Kingdom Hearts (Redux)

Okay, this is odd.... I thought my last post got eaten by the blogger thing, so I made this. Now I don't want to delete either of them, exceptI really felt the first one was better than this one. This one just was sora done hastily. The second half, anyway. I dunno how I only managed to save half of it, but I did, and it is confusing. Oh well.

Also, I got all the Dalmations last night, and so now, just a few mini-bosses to beat up on. Anyway, enjoy the randomness that my blog affords you.

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You heard right. Last night, I went through and finally finished Kindgom Hearts. It was really really fun, and I'm prolly gonna, over the summer, try and do it again, on hard. Also, I still have a few odds and ends to clear up in the game. You know, the non-story side-quests. I gotta get some more Dalmations, kill a few bosses... (CURSE YOU SEPHIROTH!!!), synthesize a couple of items, you know how it goes. It's really a great game. Towards the end, I started feeling, I don't know, more in tune with Sora. Not in the story line, I'll get to that in a second, but in terms of control. I really felt, I dunno, like I was there, actively controlling him. I'm sure you all either know what I'm talking about, or think I'm crazy. But yeah, there was a little bit of a feeling towards the end of "this is easy." Not "this villian is dumb and simple to defeat," but "I am better than the game." I guess that's sorta how it's supposed to feel, though. In any case, I really enjoyed the feeling.

Storywise, I was a little disappointed. I realize that as the story goes, once you beat the final boss, that's it, but still, I wanted to continue exploring the worlds with my newfound levels I'd gained from the battle. Anyway, the story still was almost a let down. It made perfect sense, and it was what SHOULD have happened, but to me, the story doesn't really feel.... complete.

Okay, SPOILERS. If that doesn't scare you off, you deserve to have it spoiled. Anyway, when it starts, you get Sora stuck on an island with his friends. Life is, for them, perfect. They live in a tropical paradise, Sora's pretty sure he has a girl who loves him in Kairi, or at least a very close friend, as well as his pal Riku, who he has sort of a friendly rivalry with. That is, they compete a lot, but no more than brothers normally do, and you can tell the friendship there is strong. Then, all of a sudden, shitstorm. He is ripped away from his friends and home, and finds himself in a strange place with no one he knows. I like this way of telling a story, where the main character doesn't know anything the audience (gamer, in this case) doesn't. So he's lost, disoriented, and he finds Donald Duck and Goofy... Does Goofy have a last name? Anyway, Donald and Goofy tell him that the big ass key he's been carrying around is the only weapon that can save the Universe, and because Sora's carrying it, he's the one who has to use it. Sora really doesn't want any of it, though. All he wants is his friends back, he could care less about the rest of the world as long as he has his island. Eventually, Donald and Goofy agree to help him if he'll help them, and it seems to work for Sora. He has no idea where his friends are, and so travelling to different worlds to search for them, and fighting a few heartless along the way, seems like a good plan at the moment.

So Sora, Donald, and Goofy go globe hopping, and find out that Riku and Kairi are involved in this whole mess. Great, thinks Sora, once I beat the bad guys, everything goes back to normal, Kairi and Riku and Sora can go home, and all is right in the world. Sora fights on, bravely, knowing in his heart that what he is doing is right, and eventually, he wins! The evil Ansem is thwarted, and the worlds are restored... But Riku was lost to Ansem's darkness (or something, I'm not sure, I guess he sacrificed himself to save everything, I'll need to pay attention again next time), and Kairi, the one Sora was REALLY worried about... She's safe at home, but no one is there with her. And Donald, Goffy, and Sora, are still questing. It all just seems... Incomplete.

I mean, I know theres a sequel in the works, I already have Chain of Memories, but I guess I was hoping for an ending where everything is alright, not just the end to one chapter in Sora's exciting adventures... Oh well, now I know how the Halo 2 people feel.

On a side note, wouldn't it have been funny if one of those Mushroom guys from Fantasia had appeared at the end of the game and said "Sorry Sora, but your princess is in another castle." x_x

Okay, I have 33 Dalmations to rescue, so I'd better get on that. Later folks.